New York A 4700: Authorizes a public employee's contractual rights extended for six months beyond expiration date of current agreement for negotiation of new agreement

Bill Text

STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4700
                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 22, 2023
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by M. of A. PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Governmental Employees
        AN ACT to amend the civil service  law,  in  relation  to  limiting  the
          continuation  of  the terms and benefits coverage of an expired agree-
          ment for up to six months beyond the expiration date
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 209-a of the civil service law is amended by adding
     2  a new subdivision 1-a to read as follows:
     3    1-a.  A  public employee's contractual rights shall be extended for up
     4  to six months beyond the expiration date of  such  employee's  agreement
     5  for  the  sole  purpose  of negotiating a new agreement. During such six
     6  month extension period,  all  payroll  and  benefits  assigned  to  such
     7  employee  under  such  expired  agreement  shall remain "as is", with no
     8  increase or decrease in payments until a new agreement is renegotiated.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in  (underscored) is new; matter in bracketsitalics
                              [] is old law to be omitted. 
                                                                   LBD09453-01-3